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Chris Barney to Receive Alumni Award from WSU

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Dr. Christopher Barney of the Hope College biology faculty will receive the Distinguished
Alumni Award from the Wright State University Alumni Association on Friday, May 17.

The award, the association's most prestigious, is annually granted to a Wright State
University (WSU) graduate who has attained a significant level of achievement in his
or her chosen field and has demonstrated a positive impact on a local, state and/or
international level. A 1973 WSU honors graduate with a major in biology, Barney will
be honored during an evening awards ceremony and reception at the university.

Barney is the T. Elliott Weier Professor of Biology at Hope. He joined the Hope faculty
as an assistant professor in 1980, and was promoted to associate professor in 1986
and full professor in 1992. He was appointed to his endowed chair in 2001.

He chaired the department of biology from 1996 to 2001. He served a term as the college's
Faculty Moderator, and from 1996 to 2000 was a faculty representative on Hope's Board
of Trustees. An active member of the Hope community, he led a seminar during the college's
"Winter Happening" in January of 1999.

Through the years he has taught courses including "Principles of Biology," "Human
Physiology," "Vertebrate Physiology," and "Science and Human Values," and helped initiate
the college's First-Year Seminar program. He has also done collaborative research
with more than 70 Hope students. His current research emphasis is on the role of hormones
in water balance, temperature regulation and blood pressure regulation.

He has received more than 20 external grants in support of his research and education,
including grants from the Beckman Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and
the National Science Foundation (NSF). He serves as a grant reviewer for the NSF and
a manuscript reviewer for "The American Journal of Physiology." He has written or
co- authored more than 50 articles for professional journals, in addition to making
numerous presentations at professional conferences.

He was a member of the Holland East Middle School PTA Feasibility Committee and the
PTA Executive Committee. He is a member of St. Francis De Sales Church, where he has
chaired the Adult and Family Faith Formation Board and the Pastoral Council, and currently
serves as a member of the Grand Rapids Catholic Diocese Pastoral Council.

Barney obtained his Ph.D. in medical physiology from Indiana University in 1977 and
then spent three years doing research at the University of Florida Medical School.

He is married to Julie Ann Surface Barney, who also works at Hope and is also a 1973
graduate of Wright State University. The Barneys have two children: Jeremy, a 2001
graduate of the College of Wooster, and Kara, who is a sophomore at the College of
Wooster.